Research Catalog

Title

The Professionalisation of African medicine / edited by Murray Last and G.L. Chavunduka.

Publication

Manchester [England] ; Dover, N.H., U.S.A. : Manchester University Press in association with the International African Institute, ©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Last, Murray.
• Chavunduka, G. L.
• International African Institute.

Description

xiii, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International African seminars ; new ser., no. 1

Uniform Title

International African seminars ; new ser., no. 1.

Subject

• Traditional medicine > Africa > Congresses
• Traditional medicine > Africa > Societies, etc. > Congresses
• National health services
• Health Services
• Medicine, Traditional
• Societies, Medical
• Subsaharan Africa
• medical sciences
• traditional medicine
• 73.61 science, medicine (ethnology)
• National health services
• Traditional medicine
• Medizin
• Volksmedizin
• Kongress
• Volksgeneeskunde
• Médecine populaire > Afrique noire
• Africa
• Africa
• Afrika

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings of a seminar held at the University of Botswana, Baborone, 19-21 Sept. 1983.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The professionalisation of African medicine : ambiguities and definitions / Murray Last (28 p.). -- African medical professions today / G.L Chavunduka (11 p.). -- Professional interests and the creation of medical knowledge in Nigeria / Tola Olu Pearce (22 p.). -- National medical politics in Nigeria / D.D.O Oyebola (16 p.). -- Popular control over the institutions of health : a historical study / Steven Feierman (16 p.). -- The predicament of the sinister healer / Harriet Ngubane (16 p.). -- The training of traditional healers in Mashonaland / Pamela F Reynolds (24 p.). -- The articulation of Western and traditional systems of health care / Carol P MacCormack (14 p.). -- Prospects for the professionalisation of indigenous midwifery in Benin / Carolyn Sargent (14 p.). -- The professionalisation of indigenous medicine : a comparative study of Ghana and Zambia / Patrick A Twumasi (20 p.). -- Government, associations and the university : liaison in Malawi / Jerome D Msonthi (18 p.). -- Associations and healers : attitudes towards collaboration in Tanzania / I.A.J Semali (12 p.). -- Traditional health care in Botswana / Frants Staugard (36 p.). -- The organisation of traditional medicine in Zimbabwe / G.L Chavunduka (22 p.).

ISBN

• 071901851X
• 9780719018510
• 0719022525
• 9780719022524

LCCN

86005259

OCLC

• ocm13329760
• 13329760
• SCSB-1169243

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library